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Monks form copier service.

"For goodness sake brother. Haven't you finished that note to the milkman yet?"

"Moby Richard by Herman Melville" "Wonderful! Not sure about the title—let's discuss editor."

19th Century Hacker

Learning curve: 'Your book was crap!'

'I wrote what I know. It's about a frustrated author being rejected all the time.'

'Thank god for the spellchecker!'

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"Oh great, the printer is down."

'Look, I never said salvation would be PRETTY!'

"No—You're thinking dog years—Editor years are twice as many."

"For just one monkey in front of one typewriter you've come up with some amazing stuff."

"It's about the murder of an editor who refuses to publish a writer's work..."

"By God, for a minute there it suddenly all made sense!"

Editor.

'You can't reject my manuscript without due process!'

"The arms reduction talks are off to a good start -so far, we've agreed to ban pebbles."

"There's the pressure from my public, naturally, as well as the pressure from my publisher, my agent, and all that. But the real pressure comes from that devil inside that makes me different from other men, that makes me a writer. But, of course, you know all about pressure, grinding out those papers at Sarah Lawrence."

Publisher to writer: 'It was a great read, except I collided with run-on sentences, tripped over broken English and got knocked about by a dangling participle.'

"We do not usually acknowledge unsolicited manuscripts, but we want you to know that we tore yours into tiny pieces. Yours sincerely, The Op-Ed Page."

"Your book stinks—we want to publish it."

A monk illustrates a manuscript with emojis

Amimated illuminated Manuscript

Rubbish, Poppycock, Balderdash

"We'll publish your book, doctor, but we'll have to get a second opinion."

Jesus wept

Proceedings of the club

'Look on it as... constructive criticism.'

'Your new book is full of mistakes: the critics will have a field day.'

"See, that's the problem with you new breed. You take rejection too personally."

"I just want to say thanks for getting me into this writing group."

"Hypochondriac's handbook. A little passion project I'm working on;, or, rather, I would be working on."

"Here is the one pager we all agreed on..."

"Right here is where you lost the narrative flow."

'You will write a book, but it won't be on Oprah's recommended list.'